 | Charles Sumner - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1900 - 408 pages
...when, in the British Parliament, he uttered these memorable words : — " Tell me not of rights, talk not of the property of the planter in his slaves....claim. There is a law above all the enactments of human codes, — the same throughout the world, the same in all times : .... it is the law written on the... | |
 | William Vincent Byars - Orators - 1901 - 610 pages
...made to the understanding or to the heart, the sentence is the same that rejects it. In vain you can tell me of laws that sanction such a claim ! There is a law above all enactments 'of human codes, —the same throughout the world, the same in all times, — such as it... | |
 | W. V. Byars - Oratory - 1901 - 616 pages
...made to the understanding or to the heart, the sentence is the same that rejects it. In vain you can tell me of laws that sanction such a claim ! There is a law above all enactments' of human codes, — the same throughout the world, the same in all times, — such as it... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1858 - 610 pages
...Commons in 1830 on Negro Slavery, which we think remarkably fine : " Tell me not of rights— talk not of the property of the planter in his slaves....! There is a law above all the enactments of human codes — the same throughout the world, the same in all times — such as it was before the daring... | |
 | Marion Mills Miller - History - 1913 - 444 pages
...when, in the British Parliament, he uttered these memorable words: "Tell me not of rights — talk not of the property of the planter in his slaves....claim. There is a law above all the enactments of human codes — the same throughout the world, the same in all times: it is the law written by the finger... | |
 | Marion Mills Miller - History - 1913 - 448 pages
...uttered these memorable words: "Tell me not of rights — talk not of the property of the planter in hia slaves. I deny the right — I acknowledge not the...claim. There is a law above all the enactments of human codes — the same throughout the world, the same in all times: it is the law written by the finger... | |
 | Daniel Wait Howe - History - 1914 - 694 pages
...understanding or to the heart, the sentence is the same that rejects it. In vain you tell me of the laws that sanction such a claim! There is a law above all the enactments of human codes — the same throughout the world, the same in all times — such as it was before the daring... | |
 | Godfrey Tennyson Lampson Locker-Lampson - Speeches, addresses, etc., English - 1918 - 632 pages
...to roll across the Atlantic in empty warnings and fruitless orders. Tell me not of rights — talk not of the property of the Planter in his Slaves....! There is a law above all the enactments of human codes — the same throughout the world, the same in all times — such as it was before the daring... | |
 | Godfrey Locker Lampson - Great Britain - 1918 - 628 pages
...me not of rights — talk not of the property of the Planter in his Slaves. I deny the right — 1 acknowledge not the property. The principles, the...! There is a law above all the enactments of human codes — the same throughout the world, the same in all times — such as it was before the daring... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1854 - 620 pages
...of thunder from a sky dark as that of the Deluge: Tell me not of rights ; talk not of the properly of the planter in his slaves; I deny the right; I...! There is a law above all the enactments of human codes — the same throughout the world, the same in all times — euch as it was before the daring... | |
| |
Tell me not of rights — talk not of the property of the Planter in his Slaves. I deny the right — I acknowledge not the property. The principles, the feelings of our common nature, rise in rebellion against it. Be the appeal made to • the understanding... 
